'Massacre of the Dreamers\r'

'Ana Castillo, the agent of â€Å" whipping of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma” explores the 500-year old root of Chicano feminism in America. Her collection of inadequate essays dedicated to the issues of Xicanisma is aimed to denounce diversity, the stereotypes and exploitation of Chicanos in the U.S. She begins her collection of essays by the phrase â€Å"I am a brown woman, from the Mexican side of town” and continues the confession with the amazing confession, †â€Å"At an early age we develop that our race is undesirable” (Castillo, 1994). Chicanos â€Å"have been marginalized in every sense of the word by U.S. society” (Castillo, 1994). Probably, it seems too terrible to be true, but this what Ana Castillo asserts.The generator imitates no exemplar and generally accepted literary bearing of those times. The essays have no lack in tension, strength and dynamics. Ana Castillo doesn’t deviate from the theme, nonwithstanding bein g limited by sexuality bounds. This woman wrote the book in the menstruate of important cultural and complaisant revisions; and so butchering of the Dreamers deserves detailed exploration. It is apparent, that Mexican-American literature can non but place emphasis on social, womens liberationist and racial issues. In this regard Castillo’s collection of essays can be called a perfect example of the literature of ‘ ohmic resistance’. Ana Castillo tells non only about the red of goal and land, but also the division pressed to Mexicans. The ‘promised paradise’ turned into the land of mixtures and trial for national identity.Ana Castillo evidently created her unique literary work at the intersection of numerous factors of social, policy-making and cultural life at that time. The ‘historical chronicle’ brings the reader enveloping(prenominal) to the understanding of deep philosophical, social and policy-making conflicts, pat riarchal prejudices, gender stereotypes, nationalism, racism, the interests of influential schoolman structures of American society and survey media. Massacre of the Dreamers is notably complex, contradictory and ambiguous; it reflects the change in stereotypes, transformation of cultural and social space in U.S.The success of Castillo’s book can be explained not only by the ability of the informant to tell the stories of Chicano movement, but, above all, by the ideologic pathos of her essays. Ann Castillo tells the stories of discrimination and racism. She reminds that changes in social status and structure of people of Mexican origin created social and political prerequisites for mass movement of protest †Chicanos.The Chicanos movement was mold in the image and correspondingness of both other movements; the ideology was based on the fact that Mexican Americans were people take of right for their territory. These people were treated like the objects of political and economic exploitation, and the second-rate nation. The author dwells on inequality in economic, social, political and cultural life of America, on long-standing discrimination in sphere of employment, focusing trouble on high unemployment and crime rates, to point out a few.Ann Castillo dwells on the issues of speech discrimination. Although Mexican Americans spoke Mexican language, in line to other ethnic groups, the system of study go downd to take into account the peculiarities of â€Å"Spanglish” nation. The vast bulk of Chicanos had to leave schools with no education incumbent to get a qualified job. The language barrier was the main obstacle on their way.Ann Castillo brings the understanding that Chicanos accepted no ‘ melt down pot’ theory, according to which Mexican Americans had to refuse from their farming, language and traditions. The writer presents a create of revolutionary consciousness and testimony, signaling substantial hope and in evitable changes. She even criticizes a ‘white feminism’, traces ancient Mediterranean roots for machismo, explores the moral dualism, repression of sexuality, and fear of death.Ann Castillo demands justice, pen that â€Å"When we profess a vision of a world where a woman is not raped somewhere in the united States every three minutes, where one of every three female children does not convey sexual molestation, where the Mexican female is not the lowest paid worker in the United Statesâ€we are not male-bashing or hating whites because overall they live a better life than we do, we are trying to change the facts of our condition” (Castillo, 1994).Massacre of the Dreamers can be compared with an ‘choice’ letter, which is set off against patriarchal culture of that time. Ann Castillo’s literary style is a multilevel and dynamic system. The basis of her compose is feminist social and even literary movement, as well as tooth root changes i n social conscience, attempt to vanquish ‘masculine’ diktat, racism, the feeling of inferiority, gender stereotypes and clichés. It seems that the writer’s main idea is to offer the alternative †not a stainless equality, but inventive cooperation and complementarity of cultures.Ann Castillo treads on disallow ground. She dwells on problematic relationships betwixt Chicanos and Americans, the issues of violence and superiority of nations. She tells on correlation between racism both in literature and real life. The writer criticizes patriarchal culture with its racist’s values, and places emphasis on the necessity of self-realization through creative work. She strives for language expressiveness and makes an effort to create the free-lance Mexican American character.Massacre of the Dreamers sends a take exception to traditions, rules and stereotypes. Probably, she is not the first of all writer, who tries to express the autobiography of Me xican Americans in U.S. but she is the first feminine writer, presenting a collection of the nearly acute and detailed literary confessions.Ann Castillo created the to the highest degree brilliant and sometimes ironical essays. Although she writes from a palette consisting almost exclusively of color in and mud brown gloomy tones, she is extremely frank describing all nuances of Chicanos and their movement, their desires, fears, emotional experiences and doubts.ReferencesCastillo, A. (1994). Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.\r\n'